Workers' comp.

Noting the second state Supreme Court decision in a month addressing Florida's workers' compensation law, this time striking down legislation limiting benefits for injured workers to just two years--it's great news.

Some things that shouldn't be forgotten: The system's flaws now recognized as unconstitutional were recognizable as unconstitutional years ago when they were pursued and sustained in our Legislature, by elected representatives who then and since have done deep, deep disservice to the vast majority of their constituents. They did this dirty work at the behest of insurance companies, and business associations in the state that promoted and swallowed the line that less benefits for injured workers would mean drastically lower premiums for them.

It shouldn't be forgotten that this successful effort to impose draconian limits on benefits to injured workers was aided and abetted by "upstanding" fellow citizens in suits and ties, lobbyists, lawyers, politicos, and many others who should have known of the fatal constitutional flaws of these limits, and did know them and imposed them on a relatively powerless working public anyway. It's notable that it was the judiciary only at the very top, and not our elected Legislature, too long in the thrall of corrupt power, that has now undone this drastic damage. The now obviously corrupt machinery of power in this state is already making moves to "fix" the system against injured workers again, in pure spite of the Supreme Court's enlightened opinion. And it shouldn't be forgotten that for over a decade, injured workers have gone without anything close to just compensation for what befell them on the job. They have gone without, and now can never get what would and should have been justice, and it was the machinery of corrupt government, and moral and ethical corruption, that did them in. We're talking about many tens of thousands of...